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Prokofiev, A. V.
Protection of Future Generation Interests: Utilitarian Perspective
// Philosophy and Culture.
2012. № 9.
P. 139-150.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=61443
Prokofiev, A. V. Protection of Future Generation Interests: Utilitarian Perspective
Abstract:
The given article analyzes pluses and minuses of the utilitarian ethics as the grounds for moral criteria of the
decision making process which touches the interests of future generations. The author shows that utilitarianism does not have any difficulties with involvement of future generations into the moral community and this is the advantage
compared to moral conceptions based on agreement. However, it also requires the discounting of future benefits and
costs which in its turn demands special ethical grounds. The author shows the conditional and situation nature of all
arguments for the benefit of discounting and makes a conclusion that utilitarian approach cannot be the only one
officially recognized methodology of ethics of the future. Utilitarian methods of decision making process including
the analysis of benefits and costs play an important role in social and ethical researches dedicated to the problem of
protection of interests of future generations but they must be combined with other ways and methods of discovering
of the public good from the point of view of generation relations.
Keywords:
philosophy, morals, ethics, economics, utilitarianism, justice, future, discounting, resources, eco systems.
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